Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-22

have led up to this new order. For IN
stance, he declared that the South has
found that the negro free counts for more
than the negro enslaved; that towns and
cities and manufactures are better than
theories or partisan politics. 1t has learned
that one sturdy, industrious Northern i'm
migrant is worth fifty raw foreigners.
II has smoothed the path to the southwark,
wiped out the place where Mason and DIXON
line used to he, and hung our atch,strliiS out 10
YOU and YOURS We have established tnrllt IN
CITY and country. We have fallen III love with
work We have restored comfort to homes from
which culture and elegance never departed
We have let economy take ROOF ana sprea9
among us as rank as the crab-Srass when
sprung from SherInan's cavalry camps, until we
are ready to lay odds on the Georgia ahkee Us
he squeezes pure oliye-oil out of his cotton-seed
against any Down Easter that ever snapped
wooden nufmegs for flannel sauSages in the val
leys of Vermont. Above all, we know that we
have achieved in these piping times OF peace
Il fuller independence for the South than that
which our forefathers sought to win i'll the forum
by their cloquence, or compel on the heId ny
their swords.
And this was not mere post-prandial
humor, or elegantly-phrased banquet con-
ventionality On the contrary, the great
undercurrent of truth that flowed below
and up-bore these pleasant expressions, was
manifest to all present when he declared
that the South was emancipated by defeat.
And so it was, and 50 we have always
believed. 1t was set free from the degrad-
alton of involuntary servitude, which in
all lands and under all conditions has
harmed more of those WHO enjoyed It's
fruits than those with whom it entered
into baleful competition The war eman-
cipated the South from the slavery of SEN
timent, and set before its eyes the splendid
realities of unshackled industry. 1t freed
it from the bondage Of exclusiyeness, and
taught il the universal lesson of humanity
1t removed from its eyes the glass which
distorted the purpose of the war TO its
vision, and revealed to it the great truth
that battle was done for the principle of
Federalism, which alone can make and
keep us united and contented people, the
indivisible union of sovereign States-or,
as John Fiske had it, than whom none
other has so well phrased it:
The principle that the people of State shall
have full and entire control Of their own do
nestle affairs which directly concern them
only, but that as regards matters ofeommon con-
between q
in ever ycase be reached, not by brutal warfare
or by weary diplomacy, but by the systematic
legislation OF a central Government which rep
resents both states and people, and whose de-
uisions can always be enforced, if necessary, by
the combined physical power OF all the States.
1t did more than this for the South and
the North. The war in emancipating
them from sectionalism taught them the
kinship of Americans; revealed to them
the truth that no division of civilization
in nation is compatible with enduring
institutions; that we must grow into
unit Of nationalism, so to put it, with
neither division of purpose nor of method;
absorbing only such elements as contribute
to our unity and strength rejecting
those that are antagonistic in the slightest
degree to the ideal of the new civilization,
springing from the conjunction and final
indistinguishable mingling Of two great
elements of English ideas, and which, ere
the close of another half century, will
stand cut UNNECESSARILY greater as po-
litical aggregation and social force, than
any ever known to the history OF man.
In short, the war, in begetting a new
South, indelibly impressed upon the
American people sense of the true value
of the principle Of Federalism. Greece
was nation divided into independent
States under distinct Governments, but
united into confederacies for limited pur-
poses, and without the bond of central
power to hold them in political unity, or
to check the abnormal developments of
State independence and local patriotism.
The American people have learned the
folly of such attempted unions, and COM
mon in tongue, purpose and aspiration,
have been born anew and baptized with
inyiolable fealty to the federalism that
makes us nation, while it preserves to us
independence as States.